Let’s set the scene: A Victoria’s Secret bombshell bra peeks out of a hot pink tracksuit with “Juicy” written in sparkling letters across the rear. Orange fake tan rubs off on a latex pink bodycon...
I sat in class, trying to understand how I could make some sort of career for myself, but still be able to pick up my future children from school. As I attended a Catholic school during my elementary years, motherhood was synonymous with femininity and what it meant to be a woman. It wasn't until seventh grade that I realized this wasn’t necessarily true.
When we hear the word “babygirl,” we do not often think of such traditionally masculine-presenting people. That’s because the concept involves so much more than that. It’s a silly and lighthearted term, but that’s nothing new to internet culture.
No one said “girl math” was perfectly sound financial advice or that “girl dinner” makes a whole lot of sense. But as a funny innovation started by girls FOR girls, take it for what it is: a beautiful, silly and even smart new way of using the media to share some funny thoughts and perspectives.
So many female celebrities get hate from other women for similarly arbitrary reasons, and it all comes from internalized misogyny. It is time to stop this ugly behavior of women tearing down other women and leave it behind in middle school.
A Boston University alumna of the Gastronomy Program discussed the ways masculinity and femininity are shaped by the food industry in an event Friday about her book "Diners, Dudes & Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in Food Media and Culture.”
We need to turn toward our own personal satisfaction with our gender expression, instead of lashing out at others for theirs. If you feel secure in your masculinity, don’t let anyone ever make you doubt it. Conversely, if another person is secure in their masculinity, you don’t get to question them about it.
Society often resorts to pasting labels onto different kinds of people in an attempt to simplify human behavior and make uncomplicated explanations for things that are often difficult to understand.
